Mexican-origin adolescents' cumulative strengths predict baseline and longitudinal changes in self-growth outcomes.

ABSTRACT: This study adopts a cultural ecological perspective to examine how cumulative effects of external transcultural and cultural strengths are related to baseline and changes in three markers of Mexican-origin adolescents' self-growth (i.e., resilience, life meaning, and discipline). Using a three-wave longitudinal data set (5 years) of 604 adolescents, cumulative strengths (CS) was calculated, and growth curve analyses showed a similar pattern of findings for both transcultural and cultural cumulative strengths models: Adolescents with higher CS showed higher baseline resilience, life meaning, and discipline. While there were no significant associations between adolescents' CS scores and the increase in resilience, adolescents with higher CS scores showed steeper declines in life meaning and

SUBMITTER: Sim L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11887546 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature